Why does god want to cut off women's hands?

[John V]

Well number 31 has the joung girls put up as plunder for moses army.

The law regulates women taken in war. They are married to the captor after a 30-day wait. The law does not condone battlefield rape.

And there is a another far reaching effect of slavery in addition to what ryantology and other have mentioned. It destroys the slaverhoders economy, because the practice increases slaves become more common and cheaper and it quickly becomes a cheap replace for hired men and with that joblessness soars and people either starve or go on the government cheque, for the reason it makes in impossible for argrarian cultures to advance.

I agree. I haven't made this argument because I can't support it with actual statistics, but IMO the lower rate of slavery today is due more to economics than to morality. Note that, although a lower rate, there are more slaves today than ever before. Many of them are sex slaves.

By the way, god never comdemns slavery, or the rape of girls by the isrealites in times of war.

Again, it's not rape in war. Women were taken, held for thirty days, then married. Also note that in that culture arranged marriage was common, and women frequently didn't know their husband for that long before marrying. Also, if the marriage didn't work out, the woman was a free woman.